From the monthly archives:

September 2005

Back in Town

by Joey deVilla on September 29, 2005

Actually, we’ve been back since Tuesday afternoon, but have been taking

it easy. Wendy and I arrived home to find a note from my sister

informing us that she left us some just-heat-it-and-eat-it stuff from

Ma Maison, a great French restaurant around the corner for her place. I

was expecting to order pizza that night, but instead we supped on some

very tasty salmon with shredded carrots and baby bok choy, salad and

apple tarts. Thanks, sis!

Wednesday was really “Wend’s Day”, as I took her about town on a

just-for-her kind of day. We first went to Rol San for dim sum (j,

we’ll have to take you here the next time you’re in town) and then to

Steve’s Music Store to pick out my wedding present to her: an acoustic

guitar. She picked out a lovely dark brown wild cherry solid-top Art

& Lutherie axe and has already learned a couple of chords. After

that, she got her hair cut at W on Queen Street West. She grew her hair

out for the wedding, but the long hair’s been driving her crazy. It’s

now a very cute bob. Finally, we grabbed a turkey/brie/avocado sandwich

at the Drake Hotel Cafe and headed home for guitar practice and to give

our new Playstation 2 game, We ❤ Katamari, a good workout.

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Transcript of the Ceremony

by Joey deVilla on September 27, 2005

You can check out the transcript for our wedding ceremony on the Wendy and Joey blog.

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"Fo’ Shizzle, Mah Rabbizzle!"

by Joey deVilla on September 27, 2005

I love this shot:

Photo by Ethan Zuckerman. Click it to see the source image.

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Our Wedding Program

by Joey deVilla on September 27, 2005

Photo: Wedding program of Wendy Koslow and Joey deVilla.

The full text of our wedding program is now on the Wendy and Joey blog.

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This is the Day

by Joey deVilla on September 24, 2005

[ Yes, although this post was made on

Monday, September 26th, I'm posting it with a Saturday, September 24th

date to commemorate a very important date in my life. ]

What Matt Johnson of the band “The The” sang ironically in the song This is the Day (an ode to nostalgia), I’m going to interpret literally:

Photo by Ethan Zuckerman. Click the photo to see his photoset.

This is the day

Your life will surely change

This is the day

When things fall into place

Rachel Barenblat, the Jewish officiant at our wedding, has already posted her blog entry about it, as has AKMA, who delivered a homily quite unlike any I’d ever heard before. Rachel’s husband Ethan Zuckerman has posted a set of his photos on Flickr. More photos are forthcoming!

And hey, just for kicks, a wedding favour from us to you: here’s This is the Day for your listening enjoyment [MP3, 5,7MB]. And yes, the lead line’s being played on accordion.

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Silent Running

September 22, 2005

As you’ve probably guessed, the blog’s been silent for the past week
because I’ve been getting ready for my wedding on Saturday. Things are
a little less crazy and I hope to write about what I’ve been up to in
my remaining hours as a free man.
I’ve been in Boston [...]

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Bill Gates and Napoleon Dynamite: Together at Last!

September 15, 2005

One always-enjoyable part of a Microsoft conference is the comedy video
spoof that they show near the beginning of one of the major keynote
presentations. This year’s is no exception. From the 2005 Professional Developer’s Conference and by way of Robert McLaws’ FunWithCoding.Net blog, here’s this year’s video, a riff on Napoleon Dynamite, [...]

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Nobody Could Have Foreseen the Need to Take a Potty Break

September 15, 2005

George Bush at the 2005 World Summit / 60th UN General Assembly
“Uhh, Miss Rice, kihn ah go to th’ bathroom?”

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Canadian 80’s Flashback

September 12, 2005

Today’s a bit of a busy day for me, so in lieu of the standard-issue scintillating post, here’s a gift from the 1980’s Canadian Rock archives: Wind Him Up [8.0MB, MP3] by Saga. 
Saga were David Hasselhoff before David Hasselhoff: almost unnoticed in their own home country, a big hit in Germany. Wind Him Up is [...]

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At Least It Proves That I’m Not Rigging Tucows Products in My Favour

September 12, 2005

As I mentioned earlier, we at Tucows whipped up the Blogrolling Hot 500 in response to a challenge by Jason “Weblogs, Inc.” Calacanis to create a “top 500 blogs” list to usurp the Technorati Top 100.

This blog, The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century, does not appear in this list.
However, I do appear [...]

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One Month Too Late

September 12, 2005

From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s site, Ready.gov:

Click the graphic to find out more about National Preparedness Month.

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The Soundtrack from My Personal Coming-Of-Age Film, Part Deux

September 9, 2005

A couple of weeks ago, in an entry titled The Soundtrack to My Personal Coming-Of-Age Film, I lamented that the Billboard Top 100 wasn’t representative of the sort of stuff I listened to. I was a regular listener of CFNY (better known these days as 102.1 The Edge) back then. I looked around for some [...]

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Marc Canter Sez: "Bring Accordion Boy!"

September 8, 2005

Marc Canter, in a roundabout way, has played an important role in my career. He was behind the multimedia authoring tool Director,
the first development tool I ever used after graduating from school.
Although my computer science degree and strong marks in my database
courses meant that I could’ve landed a [...]

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Great Quips from "The Daily Show"

September 8, 2005

On pathetically incompetent FEMA director Michael’s former position as
commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association: “Most Bush appointees are beholden to Arabian people.”

On the administration’s new favourite talking point — “everyone is playing the blame game”: “Those who complain about the blame game? They’re usually to blame.”

A little perspective [...]

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As Seen on Last Night’s "The Daily Show"

September 7, 2005

I find it interesting that for “V”, they went with “Voldemort” and not “Vader, Darth”.

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